February 2012
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finding beauty in the wretched: Provincial plaque... →
racismfreeontario:
QUEENSTON HEIGHTS – In August 2007, the Ontario Heritage Trust and the Niagara Parks Commission unveiled a provincial plaque to commemorate Chloe Cooley and the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada. The plaque was unveiled by The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander,…
January 2012
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“The “success” of the battered women’s movement has proven to be a double-edged...”
– Priya Kandaswamy
| “Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws” from Nobody Passes (via derica)
Real-Life Documentarian: An introspective note on... →
reallifedocumentarian:
It’s dawning on me that as an APIA advocate within the immigrants rights movement and as someone who is bilingual in Spanish, that I need to put my language skills to use in reminding other advocates, supporters and members of the community that immigration is not an issue that can be talked about in its entirety while excluding a significant portion of the community...
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re/write:: on spelling yr women's with y's (womyn) →
miswritten:
or, a-qwoc-checkin-that-turned-into-twitter-vomit-that-turned-into-a-tumblr-post.
written for all the women of color i love and hold dear to my heart. written for myself too. and in hopes that thing can change. in hopes of being heard. from love and with anger.
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“radical” men who spell women as “womyn” but are as misogynistic as fuck… you can change your spelling all you want,...
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unfair skin - Hari Kondabolu
http://youtu.be/bnW1u26YKb4 Hari Kondabolu on the concept of being “Too Dark” in the Indian Community.
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“you should totally have an elephant at your wedding”
– Kosha Patel
(Written and Directed by: Sameer Asad Gardezi and Kosha Patel; Director of Photography by: B.T. Jackson; Edited by: Kevin Lipnos)
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Excerpt from the D'Lo interview
In another piece, D’Lo embodies the character of his mother Amma, wearing traditional Sri Lankan clothing. Amma talks to the audience about having a daughter who is transgender, an extra challenge that compounds the difficulties she already faces being an immigrant in a foreign country. The monologue addresses the additional pain she feels from “losing” D’Lo as a...
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“For being a foreigner… is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri
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ammi translation
V.Vo of Sepia mutiny kindly brings you translation for that viral shit sri lankan mothers say video:
I will helpfully subtitle this for you.
Amma: Eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat EAT
Translation: I love you
Amma: [In this scenario] you will die; [in that scenario] you will die
Translation: If anything ever happened to you I don’t know what I’d do
Amma: If you wind up in hospital I’m not...
Continuous Journey - documentary →
browncanada:
Part of the Brown Canada project focuses on the history of the Komagata Maru incident. This took place in 1914 and exposes many things about racism, immigration, empire, as well as brings to light hidden stories from our past and lessons for the present and future. Read more about ‘Continuous Journey’, the ground-breaking documentary by filmmaker Ali Kazimi.
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Occupy 2012: Occupy Your Life, by Vandana Shiva →
occupy-2012:
“Occupy Your Life”, by Vandana Shiva, posted on her blog on 15th November 2011.
Take back your food
Take back your money
Take back your health care
Take back your livelihood
Take back your value system
…Read the full post on her blog
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mental illness - a tangent on context in the... →
Thanks to Bipolar Bear for sharing these words, and these parts of your story:
thestoryofabipolarbear:
Brown people and their ignorance towards mental illnesses.
This also goes for Muslims Desis.
I will never understand why it’s a shame to be mentally ill.
I don’t get why they feel depression isn’t real and it’s a jinn or something devil-like.
I don’t get why they can’t accept their...
“Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less...”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via innocentriot)
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December 2011
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“And I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and and North Face...”
– Mindy Kaling [x] (via theytrynabequeens)
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via sisteroutsider)
audre lorde is always so brilliant.
(via no-longer-solo)
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the reason most MIA songs are uncoverable
lacrimimosa:
is because they are all somewhat ironic. If you’re a white rasta sitting there with your uke singing Paper Planes like it’s just a song about smoking kush and having swagger, you’re a severe tool.
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“It’s funny, I had a slightly different upbringing than my other friends...”
– Mindy Kaling
(In response to online question: AboutNuts says: You didn’t talk much about Indian culture in your book—not that you had to—but I was curious about that part of your life… How did you learn to find your own light in that?)
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finding beauty in the wretched: What is meant by... →
racismfreeontario:
Racialized communities experience ongoing, disproportionate levels of poverty. In other words, people from Aboriginal and ethno-racial minority groups (communities of colour) are more likely to fall below the low income cut off (LICO) and to have related problems like…
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“Solidarity must be crafted on the basis of both commonalities and differences,...”
– Vijay Prashad, “Crafting Solidarities” in A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America, edited by Lavina Dhingra Shankar and Rajini Srikanth
This quote comes to mind as I see the impressive development of forms of solidarity against the Florida Family Association and their opposition to...